Yes definitely what we needed was more social media: the Ello thread

welp
https://ello.co/waxpancake/post/oy73kFfDdhOPh8Jv9z9pFA

'boast'
i am so sure
that's like the tumblr error msg i got today 'something is wack'

welp
https://ello.co/waxpancake/post/oy73kFfDdhOPh8Jv9z9pFA

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:31 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh wello

Boasting about emoji integration is wack, for sure.

less consume more commune sounds great until you realize consume is your comfortable background setting for any sm platform and you can't imagine what commune means beyond like 'do nothing'

*calls friend says hi*

Kind of funny to see actual proper beta software in widespread social use, like I added someone as Noise because they're smart but I don't actually know them, and then I had to add them again because lolbeta, but by normal social media metrics that's a weird passive aggressive things to do.

i started a thread on this one once. wonder what happened with it.

http://www.stack.fm/

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there is some charm to "finding your friends" again after years of aggregating people and friend bloat

apparently there will be this:
Love + Love bookmarking stream

i started a thread on this one once. wonder what happened with it.

http://www.stack.fm/

I sort of vaguely know the guy behind it, he made the fairly staggering decision to seek out no less than €100,000 on indiegogo to get it built. Of course the campaign failed dismally because he never managed to satisfactorily explain why he needed so much money to make a social network. So I'm kind of lol'ing now that ello is taking off with the exact same principles that stack had.

Given the initial massive excited burst G+ had and how useless it ended up being, I'm not that moved by this thing.

we had fun for a day or two iirc

not gonna lie, knowing someone's relationship status was often useful

Some people make you 'ask' for that now on fb. Not Useful!

what a stupid feature

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― mattresslessness, Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:11 (Yesterday) Permalink

Glad u could make use of my visionary thread

I sort of vaguely know the guy behind it, he made the fairly staggering decision to seek out no less than €100,000 on indiegogo to get it built. Of course the campaign failed dismally because he never managed to satisfactorily explain why he needed so much money to make a social network. So I'm kind of lol'ing now that ello is taking off with the exact same principles that stack had.

Um, that's an astonishingly small amount for the proposed work, like Ello has 5x that and looks like literal shit (tho that's its 'thing')

I like it because it's more random and isolated feeling than fb or twitter. all my friends do is post animated gifs without context. all the whitespace is nice. it's basically like a stupid messageboard. like ilx!

"looks like literal shit"

looks like figurative shit

akm's top friend.

otm is still available

https://ello.co/markzuckerberg haha

https://ello.co/ass hehehe

Basically it makes me think of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LDVZFHywzg

Um, that's an astonishingly small amount for the proposed work, like Ello has 5x that and looks like literal shit (tho that's its 'thing')

Why does it need €100,000, let alone $435,000, to set up a website? Why does it need any money at all? It's just writing code, which you can do in your spare time. Zuckerberg did it out of his dorm room.

It's the 'gradually turning into unusable shit' that costs the big bucks iirc

you gotta buy a bunch of those computers without monitors, and shelves for them

FYI: EC2 instances cost money.

Holy smokes. They are running on Heroku. A CPU is $34.50 per month ($$$)!

If they are using Heroku Postgres (120 GB RAM, 1 TB storage, 500 connections): $3,500.00 per month!

i.e. the cloud sucks

Can you really not embed images?

I've been told that posts are public and search engine searchable

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― mattresslessness, Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:11 (Yesterday) Permalink

Glad u could make use of my visionary thread

― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

touche schlump

welp
https://ello.co/waxpancake/post/oy73kFfDdhOPh8Jv9z9pFA

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:31 PM (Yesterday)

more backlash
https://aralbalkan.com/notes/ello-goodbye/

(same backlash)

otm is still available

― sarahell, Friday, September 26, 2014 2:41 AM (2 days ago)

Not anymore.

uncleshavedlongcock is still available

Stickin w friendster

Just tried to make use of my invite; site seems to be down.

I'll use this after it gets acquired by Groupon or whatever

I only joined FB about 3 years after it took off, and reluctantly (and then didnt use it for 12 months). I jumped on G+ and Dreamwdith right away so I could nab usernames, and theres a temptation do to that here too but I have not once posted on my G+ or Dreamwidth account so screw that (I do use G+'s hangouts chat app tho)

Still hardly ever use twitter either, and a large chunk of my friends only post/chat there, and I am genuinely missing things theyre up to. Which faintly annoys. but eh, they use the same argt about FB.

dreamwidth

hadn't heard of dreamwidth until now, kinda love the name

it was a LiveJournal replacement. No one uses it.

(amazingly, some hardcore holdout friends of mine still use both Livejournal, AND Usenet ffs)

I've got like 5 g+ accounts that I never use.

Remember when?

Anyway it disappeared last year. A post-mortem.

https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/

yeah i went to look for it a while ago and found several other things that now use the Ello name

woof, that article is a burn.